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"The Paul Rudolph Foundation has built two models for the exhibit "Modernism at Risk: Modern Solutions for Saving Modern Landmarks", currently on display at the College of Design at the University of Florida."

This little known Larchmont, NY Residence by Paul Rudolph is for sale. See the detailed real estate listing below for pictures and facts of this exemplary Paul Rudolph design. The original house was built in 1958 and remodeled by Paul Rudolph in 1982.

“Gropius’s greatest contribution was to introduce you to the International Style of the 1920s and 1930s and then to release you. Gropius may be wrong in believing that architecture is a cooperative art. Architects were not meant to design together; it’s either all his work, or mine.”
Rudolph quoted in: Jones, Cranston. Architecture Today and Tomorrow. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961, p. 175.

According to the web site below, the owners of the Umbrella House in Sarasota, FL, designed by Paul Rudolph, have restored the famous residence and are now planning to rebuild the long lost lattice-work "umbrella" which was torn away by Hurricane Alma in 1966.

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What in your opinion, are three of some of the greatest works of modern architecture and why?

Paul Rudolph:

I feel the Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoie [Poissy, France, 1929] demonstrated the sense of continuity of space, the unfolding space, in an admirable way. It also stated eloquently Le Corbusier’s feeling about man’s relationship to nature, which has proved to be prophetic.